Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David